Quotes About Openness

The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.

Let the mind be enlarged... to the grandeur of the mysteries, and not the mysteries contracted to the narrowness of the mind

One thing in life is for certain, the more profoundly baffled you have been in your life, the more open your mind becomes to new ideas.

The thing is, it's very dangerous to have a fixed idea. A person with a fixed idea will always find some way of convincing himself in the end that he is right

But the power of science lies in open publication, which, with the rise of the Internet, is no longer constrained by the price of paper.

Man's greatest asset is the unsettled mind.

Sometimes one has to say difficult things, but one ought to say them as simply as one knows how.

There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.

Science is an enterprise that can only flourish if it puts the truth ahead of nationality, ethnicity, class and color.

The human mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with a similar energy.

I have always attached great importance to the manner in which an experiment is set up and conducted ... the experiment should be set up to open as many windows as possible on the unforeseen.

If we want to solve a problem that we have never solved before, we must leave the door to the unknown ajar.

Unless you expect the unexpected you will never find it, for it is hard to discover and hard to attain.

Science is an essentially anarchic enterprise.

Transparency and detail are everything in science.

Unlike scientism, science in the true sense of the word is open to unbiased investigation of any existing phenomena.

The test of interesting people is that subject matter doesn't matter.

That knowledge which stops at what it does not know, is the highest knowledge.

We must keep our freedom of mind, ... and must believe that in nature what is absurd, according to our theories, is not always impossible.

I don't mind not knowing. It doesn't scare me.

White clouds, blue sky.

I'll show you my theory, if you show me yours.

To one who has been long in city pent, 'Tis very sweet to look into the fair And open face of heaven, — to breathe a prayer Full in the smile of the blue firmament.

Smile. Be open and welcoming.